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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Home Owners' Loan Corporation color-coded maps so mortgage lenders could assess risk. What discriminatory practice did these maps lead to?
(a) Blue-blocking.
(b) Blue-zoning.
(c) Redspotting.
(d) Redlining.

2. What was the Haitian Revolution?
(a) A rebellion of enslaved people against their owners.
(b) A rebellion of native Haitians against the English.
(c) A rebellion of the English against the French.
(d) A rebellion of indentured servants against their employers.

3. Beginning in the 1930s, many Black Americans grew disillusioned with racism in Christian churches. What religion did some Black people turn to?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Judaism.
(c) Islam.
(d) Taoism.

4. Which for the following is NOT a reason Robert Finley cited in his proposal to send Black people back to Africa?
(a) This arrangement would "civilize" the continent of Africa.
(b) This arrangement would rid the U.S. of Black people.
(c) This arrangement would offer enslaved Blacks a better life.
(d) This arrangement would help the U.S. avoid paying reparations.

5. Why was it difficult for abolitionists to use the Bible support for their views?
(a) Their opponents referenced a different version of the Bible.
(b) The Bible did not address the morality of slave-ownership.
(c) Several Bible passages directly supported slave-ownership.
(d) Many abolitionists were illiterate and unable to read the Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the term used for the "the "massive migration of whites to the suburbs" (126) to escape racial integration?

2. How many people died in the Civil War?

3. What was the name of the group who fought for the rights of Black people in the Reconstruction Era?

4. Which northern city was chosen as the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sothern Christian Leadership Conference?

5. According to Tisby, what attracted most Black people to Christianity during the Colonial era?

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